Wow. The restraint that he must've had when reviewing Not Tonight. I was actually looking forward to how he'd handle a Brexit-themed game. That "extreme isolationist party" was just crying for a jab at the Tories. All he says was "it'll be dated in a few years". I'm not saying he should've picked a side. I was expecting snipes at both sides to balance out, but the silence here was deafening.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not interested in agenda pushing. I guess that Yahtzee is of the centre-left persuasion, as he has that kind of anarchistic, Carlin-style unfiltered humour that doesn't care about 'being patriotic', family values, or PC culture. So on one hand he'll call out the racism in CoD, but on the other he'll make a racist joke, clearly meant to be funny, not harmful.

A few years ago you'd call it left wing. But after the political mess on both sides of the Atlantic, the current left will label him as rightist, and the right will claim him as their own, and he'll have no choice but to join or remain stateless. The hilarious thing is that his old CoD videos condemning racism would probably get him labelled as an SJW liberal snowflake today.

Given the situation, and that geek/gaming online culture is probably at the forefront of the culture war, it wouldn't surprise me if he pulled his punches on what's turning into another front. I don't know if he follows UK news since he moved to America, but working in gaming, it would be counter-intuitive to annoy Brexit-leaning viewers, or else end up with copies of his books being burned and #boycottescapist trending on Twitter. Maybe some inappropriate decade old tweets would resurface as well.

You can probably guess that I'm not. But I was surprised that there were no jokes on the subject matter, and wondered whether it was to appease one side or the other.

Perhaps it's that the current state of the whole political spectrum in the UK is somewhat of a total mess that's almost impossible to follow. Particularly for someone who's now completely disconnected from the country.

You can probably guess that I'm not. But I was surprised that there were no jokes on the subject matter, and wondered whether it was to appease one side or the other.

Perhaps it's that the current state of the whole political spectrum in the UK is somewhat of a total mess that's almost impossible to follow. Particularly for someone who's now completely disconnected from the country.

Personally I don't think COD is racist at all and I thought the Division kicked ass.

Just to clarify, I'm no brexiteer. I think Yahtzee wanted to go in on Brexit, but was worried that taking a side would make him look like a sellout to the people who see him as maverick or chaotic neutral, who don't like Brexit or Trump but support them because they're a big F U to the "establishment" and "liberal culture", and many of whom tend to be into nerd/gaming culture.

I think it was his Far Cry 5 review where he goes in on Trump but balances it with a Hillary joke. I remember after the election how guys like H3H3 and Casey Neistat behaved. H3 revealed that he voted Hillary in the middle of a video lambasting Laci Green's poor reaction to Trump's victory. Meanwhile, Casey didn't beat around the bush. He said Americans were "duty bound" to vote Hillary to keep out Trump.

I don't think either liked Hillary. Maybe Casey did, but it was more about seeing Trump as the greater evil. So why the contrast? I think H3's conciliatory tone was because his audience was mostly made up of gamers, nerds and meme-lovers. He's invited Jordan Peterson on, and while I don't see Jordan as right wing, but one of those who has been "claimed" by the right, it tells us more about his audience.

Casey would probably never invite him on. He doesn't have the same audience, so he's not required to play non-partisan or keep a "maverick" image. It's like when you make a Trump joke, and supporters jump in the comments to say "but Hillary". So now you have to add a "but Hillary" to your Trump joke to not be seen as a "liberal shill". And the we end up with this false equivalence where Trump will say or do something ridiculous, and we all have to pretend that "Hillary and the Dems" are just as bad.

Anyway, that's enough politics from me. Before I go, I'd recommend not using the Express as a source. You've heard of the Daily Mail, right? It's snarky, cruel and plain old mean. The Express looks like a tryhard in comparison. Like Fox News when it was trying to catch up to Breitbart. They even have this "crusade against the EU", where every Brexit story is spun positively, because lord knows they need it. While the Mail does snark naturally, the Express stinks of desperation as they try to bite into that right wing nationalistic market.